Ramón García is a poet, writer, and scholar. Born in Colima, Mexico, and raised in Modesto, California, García earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of two collections of poetry: The Chronicles (Red Hen Press, 2015), a finalist for the International Latino Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English, and Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010). García has also published a scholarly monograph, Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

García’s poetry, fiction, and scholarship have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Best American Poetry 1996, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature (University of Washington Press, 1998), and Mandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas/New Writing from the Americas. He has written on and collaborated with such visual artists as Berta Jottar, Susan Silton, and Sandra de la Loza, among others.

His honors and awards include residency fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. He received a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A member of PEN America, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers and a founding member of the Glass Table Collective, an artists’ collective, García is currently a full-time faculty member at California State University, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles.